How to practise yoga poses to tone your hips

That said, certain yoga asanas, or poses, can help shape and define the muscles near your hips for a more toned look. If you want to learn how to use yoga to get slimmer hips, keep reading.

1. Do the Big Toe Pose

• Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your hands at your sides.

• Bend at your hips and drop to touch your toes with your knees straight.

• Grab your toes with your fingers.

• Make the motion of lifting your upper body back up, keeping hold of your toes and inhaling.

• Lift your buttocks and hips as you exhale.

• Continue alternating between lifting your toes and lifting your hips for several minutes.

2. Do the Happy Baby

• Lie on your back and bend your knees to your stomach.

• Hold your feet with your hands.

• Open your legs so that your knees move toward your armpits.

• Keep your knees and ankles aligned, and press your feet into your hands.

• Hold the pose for one minute.

3. Do the Half Frog

• Lie on your stomach.

• Hold your forearms against the floor and lift your upper body up.

• Move your body weight to your left arm.

• Bring your right heel up to touch your right hip, holding it in place with your right hand. Hold the position.

• Repeat on the other side.

• Hold the pose for up to two minutes on each side.

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4. Do the Locust

• Lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides and your palms facing up.

• Turn your big toes toward the centre and feel your thighs rotate and your buttocks tighten.

• Lift your head, chest and arms away from the floor, reaching your fingertips backward.

• Hold the pose for at least five breaths, then repeat.

5. Do the extended side stretch

• Stand with your feet wide apart and hold your arms at your sides.

• Turn your right foot out ninety degrees, bending your right knee.

• Sink your hips down so that the underside of your right thigh is parallel to the floor.

• Look at your right fingertips and keep your chest facing forward.

• Repeat on the other side.

• Hold the pose for five complete breaths on each side.

6. Do the wind-releasing pose

• Lie on the floor on your back.

• Bring your knees to your chest, keeping your ankles together.

• Hug your knees with your arms and lift your head off the floor.

• Breathe in and tighten your abs, then breathe out. Repeat.

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